Liz Truss faces $15,000 bill for Chevening country house "parties"

A spokesman for Truss, who plans to stand again as an MP at the next election, said the invoice would be disputed.

 

“Liz always paid for the costs of her personal guests at Chevening,” he said. “The latest invoice contains a mixture of costs for her personally and costs for official government business with civil servants including [cabinet secretary] Simon Case and senior officials from other departments who met at Chevening during the transition preparations.

 

“The latter constitutes the majority of the bill. It would be inappropriate for her to pay the costs for officials as it would have breached the civil service code for civil servants to accept hospitality during the leadership campaign.

 

She has therefore asked for this to be billed separately.’”

 

Another source added: “This invoice for August 2022 was only sent to Liz by Chevening earlier this month. She has requested an accurate invoice and will settle that once received.”